St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-09
MORMON CONVERTS.
Over 400 of Them Now En- Route
for Utah.

Over 400 OF Them Now En- Route
for Utah.
Special to the Globe.
NEW YORK, Sept. S.-More than 400
converts to the Mormon faith arrived on
the Guion line steamship Wisconsin
to-day, and left tonight for Salt Lake
city. An effort to reconvert one of the
party, an English matron. failed. The
attempt came about in this way: This
morning the following telegram was re-
celyed at Castle Garden before the i'm
migrants had been landed:
New Brighton, Pa, Sept. 6.-To Rev.
Thomas ID. Drum, Chaplain, Castle Garden:
MRS. barnes is due tomorrow on the Wiscon-
sin. She is in the hands of the Mormons
her daughter wishes to prevent her going to
salt Lake. Can you detain her so that she
can De brought out here? Telegraph answer
anu expenses. REV. T. j. DAEEER.
Inc dispatch was turned over to the
landing bureau and the register clerks
notified to look out for her when she ar
rived. In the absence of DR.. Drum, DR..
John w. Kramer, secretary of the i'm
migrant post chaplaincy, waited at the
garden for the arrival of the passengers,
intending to aid in Identifying Mrs.
Barnes and to use such persuasion as
ne could to induce her to abandon the
idea OF going to Utah with the Mormons.
II know nothing about it," he said to
reporter while waiting, "except the dis
patch comes to our chaplaincy from
minister of the Church of England. and
all can do is to try and persuade her not
to abandon the faith in which she has
been brought up for the delusion of
MOrmonlSm. We cannot by force pre-
vent her going with them, but | shall
devote all my time to reasoning with her
on the subject in the hope of inducing
her to go to her daughter At IL a,
m. the first load was brought to Castle
Garden from the Wisconsin, and DR..
NlglutSch, of the Landing bureau, sue
ceeded in finding Mrs. Barnes among
them. The case, however, took on a
new complication from the fact that
MIS-. Barnes was accompanied by her
second husband and two Stepdaughters.
Sne was taken into the rOtunda office,
where Rev. DR.. Kramer had long talk
with her. She is anxious to see her
daughter, and was willing to go to her
and let her husband and his daughters
precede her to Utah. He evidently
feared that once removed from his influ-
ence she would not follow him to Nor
mondOm, and consequently he refused
his consent. The husband is tall, cada-
verous, unwashed and anything but
preposSessing, while Mrs. Barnes is a
comedy English matron evidently sew
eral years his junior. She was
very anxious to go to her
daughter, but would not leave
her husband, without his full and free
consent. Of SIG passengers brought
over in the Storage of the Wisconsin,
415 were Mormons. The party is in
charge of President John Isaac Hart, of
Ogden, and Secretary Charles J. Thomas,
of Salt Lake. President Hart has
brought over three parties before this.
During the past eighteen months he has
baptized $50 into the Mormon faith in
England. All of this present party have
embraced the faith, some recently and
others several years ago. There are
among them It's English, 1877 Scandi-
navianS and the rest are Germans save
nine, who came from Palestine. Mr..
Hart says that all have homes provided
for them at some point in Utah, and
many are going to join friends who are
already there.